Rep. Issa: It’s Time to Deport DREAMers

It wasn't too long ago that Rep. Issa said:

"We're the party of Lincoln, and the party of Lincoln would not accept people living in our country and not being citizens, or not being given the opportunity to become citizens…we need to have a clear pathway to citizenship, and we shouldn't hide that."

But the Congressman surrendered to the Tea Party when he announced his intention to circulate a letter calling on President Obama to deport the lives of aspiring Americans, our nation's DREAMers. In his letter to Republicans, as The Huffington Post writes:

Darrell Issa calls for Obama to [deport] dreamers

…[he] is asking colleagues to sign on to a letter to the president demanding he end a program that keeps young people with longstanding ties to the U.S. from being deported.

The letter…blames President Barack Obama for a current crisis of unaccompanied minors crossing the border illegally. It specifically singles out his Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy, or DACA, which allows young undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children to stay and work legally.

[But] DACA does not allow immigrants who crossed the border illegally recently to gain legal status…

The two-year anniversary of President Obama's bold signing of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) was marked last week – a courageous move that has allowed hundreds of thousands of DREAMers the opportunity to contribute to our nation's economy and live in the only country they love and call home without fear of deportation. And this week, we reach the one-year anniversary of the Senate passing bipartisan immigration reform. Yet we have Congressmen like Darrell Issa who, instead of leading for the majority of Americans calling for commonsense solutions to our broken immigration system, continue to callously overlook the undocumented immigrants' ordeal and blame others for their own failure.

Rather than adding fear to the lives of DREAMers, Speaker Boehner, Leader McCarthy, and the House Republican Conference should denounce this disgraceful act of intolerance and answer to the American public whether they stand by Rep. Issa's shameless demagoguery deportation proposition or by these aspiring Americans.